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Nov 1, 2010

Top 15 Poetry Picks for Christmas

laura boggess

Fifty-four days until Christmas! Here at The High Calling we want to help you fill the stockings of all folks bookish on your list. This week we’re offering recommendations for your poetry...

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Oct 4, 2010

Emotional

laura boggess

She had me with the story of the pink dress. The pink dress for a child she had never met—a child she had prayed for, dreamed for, and wondered about. A child named Xiomara Michelle. She had me...

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Sep 24, 2010

Random Acts of Poetry: The Poems We Come From

Glynn Young

High Calling poets write poems about poems they were influenced by.

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Sep 23, 2010

Deconstructing Panjat Pinang

Gordon Atkinson

But nothing is safe from our modern penchant for deconstruction, so it was perhaps inevitable that someone would discover and reveal the true origins of this ritual. As it turns out, the tradition...

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Sep 20, 2010

Concrete: You Can Walk Around On It

laura boggess

I love you as much as all the stars in the sky. I love you as much as all the grains of sand on the shores. It’s a game that almost every parent has played with his or her child—I love you...

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Sep 6, 2010

Simple

laura boggess

Keep it simple, they say. They are Chip and Dan Heath--the brothers and co-authors of our new book club selection, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die. And by stick these boys...

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During the past several days, I have been reflecting on various implications of a passage in Ezekiel 41 in which God reveals his plans for beautiful decorations of the temple in Jerusalem. I began... Read More +